On a chilly Halloween morning, I approached the new Internet Cafe 2 in Oak Cliff to find the spookiest pumpkin ever sitting on the front steps. Decorated simply in splashes of paint and black marker, it sent shivers down my spine with just three words: “BUT HER EMAILS.” If you’re…
Deep Ellum is about to have one less pizza joint. Zini’s Pizzeria on Elm Street is closing this weekend after the pizzeria lost its lease, according to a Facebook post. Zini’s fans who visit between now and Sunday can grab a free hat along with a slice. The late-night pizzeria…
Here are some facts you need to know. Carrollton has a Korean dive bar called Ddong Ggo, in the same shopping center as H Mart. Ddong Ggo is Korean for “butthole.” In the restaurant’s case, this refers to a chicken’s, which is why its logo is an angry chicken with…
If you’re not the type to dress up as a Game of Thrones character and binge drink in a crowded nightlife district, there are other, subtler ways to celebrate Halloween. Have a cocktail at one of several Dallas bar/restaurants rumored to have spirits lurking within. You don’t have to believe…
When San Antonio Asian-fusion restaurant Hot Joy announced earlier this year that it was entering the Dallas market, it was big news. Hot Joy partnered with restaurant management group Front Burner to open a two-year pop-up at Cole and Lemmon avenues in Uptown, which it planned to follow with a…
When you crave brunch, what dish are you thinking of? Is it eggs Benedict with cayenne-speckled hollandaise and eggs poached just so? A pile of pancakes under a lava flow of maple syrup? An English breakfast so authentic that you begin to call soccer by its real name, football? Sure,…
Dallas-Fort Worth has a weeklong celebration of all things beer — and in particular, the locally brewed beer that makes our local brew scene so special. Looking to celebrate? Here are a few of our favorite events this week, but you can see a full list at the North Texas…
In classic Texas fashion, summer’s six-month reign of terror has given way to a week of autumn that, this weekend, will be yanked away by the icy-cold fingers of the Night King — er, a cold front. With temperatures dipping as low as the mid-30s, we’re gonna need a bowl…
Six months ago, 20-year-old bar and music venue the Crown & Harp closed its doors for good, also effectively closing the book on Lower Greenville’s chapter as a place to go for cheap drinks, laid-back dives and live music. The space has been vacant ever since. Now, a pair of…
There’s good and bad news in this week’s roundup of DFW restaurant events. Let’s start with the bad: Audacity Brew House, Denton’s first brewery, is closing Nov. 11, the Denton Record-Chronicle reports. The brewery opened in 2014. The announcement was made in a note from owner-brewer Doug Smith to investors…
The Truluck’s specialty Halloween cocktail, 43 Reasons to Love Halloween, is simple, yet delicious. And it’s half price during Happy Hour.
When Kitchen LTO opened in 2013, it was the first of its kind in Dallas; permanent pop-up, they called it. Every four to six months, the chef at LTO would vacate, and a new chef — and cuisine — would take over. In the spring of 2017, shortly after LTO…
It’s easy to think about a taco and forget about the tortilla. You’ve probably eaten one of Luis Perez’s tortillas in Dallas and haven’t even known it. If you’ve had a tortilla at Tacodeli, Norma’s Cafe, Oddfellows or Trompo recently, you’ve had a flour or corn tortilla from his Oak…
All-American is a series that looks at beloved, longstanding North Texas eateries and examines their histories while exploring how the food has changed — for the good or bad — over the years. Whether you like it or not, lunch and dinner at Prego Pasta House begin with 50 shades of…
Whether you fancy delicate rosés or juicy burgers, there’s fun to be had this weekend in Dallas. Here’s a rundown: ***** When burgers compete, your stomach wins. As part of North Texas Beer Week, both the Dallas and Fort Worth locations of Rodeo Goat will offer burger brackets. Every day…
More than a few hearts broke when Zoli’s NY Pizza shuttered its Oak Cliff restaurant on Valentine’s Day 2016. But the building needed too many repairs to justify the expense, and a changing Bishop Arts District pushed Zoli’s north — way north, to Midway Road in Addison. At first glance,…
The sandwich you’re looking for right now tastes like Thanksgiving on a toasted bun. It happens around the same time every year — the temperature plummets, the papery leaves whoosh around, the gourds come out and you’re drifting off while imagining carved turkey, mayo, cranberry, maybe some bacon and that…
This was supposed to be a traditional review of a trendy new Uptown restaurant. I planned to visit Hot Joy a few times, eat some food and write about whether it was delicious. It’s not delicious, but Hot Joy faces a bigger issue: race. Hot Joy is a clueless white-dude…
Settle Up is a column that critiques cocktail bars with the same gravitas that food critics apply to restaurants, exploring Dallas’ cocktail concepts, menus, execution and service and steering discerning imbibers toward all the booze that’s fit to drink. When I moved to Dallas a few years ago, everyone told…
Millennials get left out of all the good stuff: homeownership, decent salaries, ever hoping to pay off student loans. As a result, a lot of this much-maligned demographic group tends to take up residence in rapidly proliferating apartment complexes that have crowded Dallas, which means there’s one thing many millennials…
We’ve been waiting a long time for this. Chef Bruno Davaillon departed the kitchen at The Mansion two years ago, spending his time researching and preparing to open a new restaurant in the renovated 400 Record building. He traveled to France, tasting the latest and greatest foods of a new…
During Hidden Gems Week, the Observer food and drink writers are celebrating an abundance of diverse, delicious restaurants and bars around Dallas, places that don’t often (or ever) get mentioned by big-name food media, trendsetters, bloggers or chefs. We’re taking you outside of the ordinary to help you discover something…
